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no sitting instead of kneeling!” We continue
down a long hallway to several other rooms
on the main floor. There was a large kitchen at
the end that still held an old refrigerator and
ice box. A smaller room across the hallway
still holds a piano and next to it was an eight
track player. He tells me that this was the music
room where the Sister’s taught music lessons.
There is a back staircase that has an interesting
cut out design in the wooden banister that
leads up to the second floor, we choose to
head down the back stairs to the basement
instead. He tells me that lunch was served in
the basement and at a time there were one
hundred students to be fed. The basement held
the boarder’s dining room, the day student’s
dining room, the priest’s dining room; the
kitchen with a cellar like storeroom is off to the
side.
Now to say dining room for the student’s
is a bit of a stretch as he shows me where they
would’ve eaten. Down a long cement walk,
which appears to be a hallway, he said would’ve
been a long wooden table and benches. “This
is where we ate lunch every day.” My tour
guide got a bit nervous in the basement as
it was pitch black and asked me if I saw any
ghosts. He did not want to stay very long down
there even when I had reassured him with my
flashlight. He tells me that even when he was
a kid he never liked coming down here, he
always felt as if he was being watched. I shot
almost two hundred photos while we were
there and did not find a ghost present in a
single one!
We make our way up the stairwell to the
main floor, now back at the front of the school
and continue up the main stairwell to the
second floor. There were three dorm rooms
on the second floor and two bathrooms. Now
at the time when he went to school there,
there was no running water and no indoor
bathrooms. The outhouses, which are still
standing are on the south side of the Convent
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